Notes:
For robotic plasma cutting, tools are defined and loaded for each cut height that will be used.
Refrerence document for Tool & Speed parameter page specific to Plasma Cutting.
Selected tool naming elicitation
Short explanation regarding the impossibility of selecting the user tool (auto-generated by the module based on cut chart entry selected)
Parameter descriptions
Selected tool (for plasma cutting)
When a Hypertherm Cut Chart entry is selected for a plasma operation, a corresponding tool for that process is automatically created and assigned to the operation.
This tool contains parameters specific to the cut chart for that process, including cut height and linear cut speed.
The naming convention for plasma cutting tools is:
{current in A} Hypertherm {material type} - {kerf diameter in mm} {cut height in mm}
For example, a plasma tool name for Mild Steel 130 Amp O2/Air with a Kerf diameter of 2.3 mm and Cut Height of 6.6 mm would appear as:
130A Hypertherm MS - D2.3 H6.6
In Robotmaster for plasma cutting, Kerf diameter (kerf width) is used for tool diameter and cut height is used as tool length.
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For plasma operations, Selected tool, Linear speed, and Set speed from selected tool cannot be edited on the Tool and Speeds page. This information is automatically set based on Cut chart entry.
However, you can override these speeds for a plasma operation:
Approach speed
Retract speed
Entry/exit speed